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Course Goals and Objectives
| Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology |
| Whether or not to medicate mental health disorders during pregnancy is a complex decision involving maternal health as well as possible adverse effects on the unborn child. Similarly, medicating youth is equally important and controversial. On the one hand should medicines be administered to youths with psychological disorders, offering positive benefits but perhaps altering the developing brain? Do short-term benefits translate into long-term improvements, or might harm follow? Incorporating the latest literature, Dr. Julien will address the fetal effects of maternal drug intake and, in children, the treatment of behavioral aggression, anger, autism, ADHD, depression (emphasizing medication efficacy and medication-related suicide), anxiety disorders and bipolar disorder. This seminar is intended for all those who work with women of child-bearing age as well as those who work with children and adolescents with mental health disorders. GOALS: . |
| Most importantly, you will learn to incorporate this material into your clinical practice. |
- Present the controversies in medicating very young (preschool)
children.
- Provide optimum pharmacology for medicating pregnant females.
- Review medications used in the treatment of ADHD, aggressive
disorders, anxiety disorders, autism and bipolar disorder in
children and adolescents.
- Resolve the controversy and present the pharmacology of
antidepressant drug use in children and adolescents.
- Provide optimum pharmacology for medicating children and
adolescents with behavioral and mental health problems.